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A child’s experiences from birth to age five can have a profound effect on their success later in life, from social and emotional intelligence to health and employment. Crucial brain development occurs during those early, active years that can provide either a strong or weak foundation for children to build upon. High-quality early education during this period can have a profound impact on a child’s success in school and beyond.
As grantmakers, our desire to have a positive impact on the communities we serve fuels our work. In order to create the greatest impact, we must work with nonprofits and those with lived experience to understand problems and define a path forward. But what would it look like to have nonprofits and communities truly drive our work? How much participation is required to center our work on community needs?
Understanding behavioral finance can be extraordinarily empowering for any investor. For an investment committee, it can be a key to healthy group dynamics, clear decision-making, and optimal performance. Join Joel Moore, senior financial advisor, Nicole K. Ball, philanthropic strategist, and William Jarvis, managing director, in an interactive session to show how you can apply behavioral finance principles and optimize your investment committee’s effectiveness and impact.
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This session will help foundation managers understand legal issues they and their grantees commonly face. Topics include: Unwitting Violations of UPMIFA, Individual Director and Officer Liability in a Sex Scandal World; Director and Officer Insurance and Common Exclusions; New Overtime Regulations; Working with Volunteers and other topics.
As the social sector grapples with improving its record on diversity, equity, and inclusion, the question of what exactly the record shows about philanthropy’s reach into specific communities emerges. After all, how can we work toward a more equitable sector if we don’t have a starting point of data to use as a benchmark to track progress and inform our impact? What demographic data are available to answer this question, and how can funders and grantees alike more diligently track and share this information?
Skills-Based Volunteering (SBV) aligns a professional’s skills and talents to the social challenge they are best positioned to address. Also known as pro bono, SBV enables companies and foundations to support nonprofits where they need it most: the critical, yet often underfunded core mission functions of strategy, model development, technology, marketing, HR, and more. SBV is also a valuable tool for social impact organizations to establish and maintain mutually beneficial relationships with corporate partners.